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Pac-Man Championship Edition Running On Arduino Uno Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Manic Miner Run on a Plain Arduino Uno at 50 fps, With Two Resistors for Video and No Framebuffer

An Arduino Uno has 2 KB of RAM, 32 KB of flash and a 16 MHz 8-bit ATmega328P. That is less memory than the 1982 ZX Spectrum had, and nowhere near enough to hold a frame of video. Even so, Smashcat has built a game engine that runs full arcade-style games on it at a locked 50 frames per second, straight to a TV over composite video made with just two resistors. It now runs four games: Manic…